"Anxiety"

Goner

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Recording the follow-up to your breakthrough, award-winning album in six hours is either an act of absurd hubris or profound insecurity.Either the Eddy Current Suppression Ring believe laborious production sessions are reserved for less talented bands or that their band is somehow undeserving of the additional studio time their accolades have afforded them.Lead single "Anxiety" more suggests the latter, that confidence may be in short supply. Recognition seems to have had the opposite of its intended effect on the Saints and Stooges-venerating ECSR.The song is no shrinking violet, but there's an audible trepidation in its ramshackle tumult.The way frontman Brendan Suppression shrieks the title suggests that the black gloves he wears to calm his stage fright are of limited utility.Yet it's precisely his nervous self-awareness that propels "Anxiety", in spite of its well-worn influences.Suppression might be loath to admit that he's "a little scared [he] might fail," but the truth is that fear might be the secret to ECSR's success.